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Pressing Info:
/250 - 180-Gram Audiophile Black 12" vinyl LP
/250 - Tri-color Striped Pink / Bone / Doublemint 12" vinyl LP (Skeletal Lightning Store exclusive)
/500 - Baby Blue in Blue Jay color in color 12" vinyl LP
https://skeletallightning.com/collections/pool-kids-pool-kids/products/pool-kids-pool-kids
 
https://poolkidsband.bandcamp.com/

This entire thread feels like a performance art piece to me. 

Economy shipping from Japan can take 2-3 months. In other words, faster than the average pre-order. Totally worth it.

Oh yes!

I emailed to cancel my order and they refunded me right away. So at least that's one positive about them. Thanks for the heads up @yumplok, @Satan@Rip

Oh yes!

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ship7 lets you declare the value of the goods, when they receive the package, they have a disclaimer that you need to declare it as much as you paid for it, but I always put one dollar for every record, and they never asked me anything even if there is a receipt in the package that clearly states otherwise. I think they have to state on their website, but it's your responsibility to "not lie", but probably don't really care about and even "giving a helping hand" by not putting the value on the package they ship and by throwing away the receipt printed by the merchant. It's more than likely a grey zone, hell even a fraud but  I'm fed up of paying awfully high taxes on records I can't buy in my country from my already well taxed salary. I'll post from the prison if I got caught. 

Do you think God stays in heaven, because he too fears of what he's created... here on earth?

My god… I… I just got shipping notification…

Guess I need to open a new business at home...

This entire album is great, these guys got chops

https://rivalschoolsnyc.com/Secret-Page
https://rivalschoolsnyc.com/Deluxe 
(Updated URL) 
 
Order: https://www.runforcoverrecords.com/products/730213-rival-schools-united-by-fate-deluxe-edition
 
Looks like United by Fate is getting a repress and it’s gonna be a deluxe 2xLP. More info to come. 

Thanks for the heads up on this, I was lookint at one of these for ages but didn't know how legit they were, which one I should use or how much tax I would be stung with once landed here, so thanks for the spreadsheet cost breakdown. Going to set up one.
It's annoying because my purchases from the states are always so spread about so will need to plan it out before going in on this.

I'll try to keep this short, so let's go.
 
About a year ago I was fed up with intl shipping prices and the new EU tax law, that you have to pay tax (it's 27% here in Hungary) on everything you order, it is especially disgsuting that the amount is calculated on the item + shipping total, so basically a 20-dollar record with the least awful scenario of a 20-dollar shipping would end up in my hands  for a whopping $50,8 which came to the point that collecting is becoming unsustainable. This is when I dug into mail forwarding services, and after about 5-6 shipments without any issues I can confidently say that it's a game changer.
 
Disclaimer: please look into it yourself with your country details etc.
 
So the process is I'm using ship7.com who has a warehouse in Delaware (tax free US state), I ship my records there mostly for free or cheap media mail, I have up to 60 days free period (after that it has a small fee)to wait for multiple packages and then I ship them out to Hungary together for way cheaper than it would be  directly from the labels/stores would be, not to mention you can get US indie exclusives, get stuff from stores that only ship to the US etc.. (Also, this is up to how rulefollower you are you can play with declared value, but then again it might be risky, so it's on you to do it or not, but alone saving on shipping is huge, saving on tax is enermous). Obviously inserting a middleman is always a risk, as you have no help from the place you bought the record anymore after if arrives to the warehouse, but I was at a point of either this risk or selling off my collection. the rant stops now, here are some pictures of my last 10-record (teamed up with a friend for HIL, that's why only 9 records pictured) shipment and a sheet about the savings.
 




 
  

The new single kicks ass:
 
 
 
also looks like the digital single dust will be on this release too. 

Good Nature is a great vibe album and I’ll die on that hill.  I could never fully get into Altogether though.  I don’t think it’s as heinous as a lot of people make it out to be, but it was definitely the tipping point that made me realize I can’t confidently PO anything this band puts out anymore.

Can't wait to spend $75 dollars on this.

This is super gross and embarrassing. Never seen a less-inspired release from an artist before, let alone one I sort of respect and still enjoy nostalgically. 
 
The price. The format. The art. The content.
Awful.

This is soooo good. The singles that I weren't too fussed about at first work so well as a whole. It's refreshing hearing Anthony's voice outside of wailing in a post-hardcore backing and branching out a bit. Boom. Done. Good.

Who dis?
 

Was fishing around Bull Moose and noticed they have 3 variants available.  $34.97 [almost free shipping] and no charge until it ships in September.
• "Project M" Exclusive – coke bottle, black splatter /300 here.  (RIP any doofus who gave Revolver $50 for it this week.)
• "Zia" Exclusive – neon-black galaxy mesh /250, here.  (Calling it a Zia exclusive amuses me.)
• Coke bottle green /2,000, here.

Who dis?
 

Might need to wait it out, and check distros on Amazon and eBay too (nearer the time of release, usually stuff gets listed then). If you get stuck, give me a shout and I'll post it over. The only issue with posting from here (UK) to EU is including a customs form on the outside, and if you mess that up the whole thing gets caught in customs for a month.